Samba on my ubuntu linux boxed stopped working today and I don't know what the issue is. My remote computers can no longer access it at it's ip address. When connecting, my pc displays "an error occured while reconnecting to [my server name]...the network name could not be found". It worked perfectly a few hours ago, so i'm stumped. I've restarted smbd, restarted the computer...no luck. I also run ISPconfig which still works, so it looks like it's not an issue of finding the computer on the network. Thanks Some things I did recently: -Changed some permissions on folders as root -while connected to the linux box via samba, my mac went to sleep netstat -tap: Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 localhost:2208 *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 localhost:1225 *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 localhost:mysql *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:81 *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 virtual-ip1.exam:domain *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 host1.leavitt.co:domain *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 localhost:domain *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 localhost:953 *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:microsoft-ds *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 host1.leavitt.com:1923 po-in-f91.google.co:www ESTABLISHED5529/firefox-bin tcp6 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *op3s *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *op3 *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:imap2 *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 ip6-localhost:953 *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN - my /etc/samba/smb.conf: [global] ; General server settings netbios name = LEAVITT_SERVER workgroup = MSHOME announce version = 5.0 socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 passdb backend = tdbsam security = user null passwords = true username map = /etc/samba/smbusers name resolve order = hosts wins bcast wins support = yes printing = CUPS printcap name = CUPS syslog = 1 syslog only = yes ; NOTE: If you need access to the user home directories uncomment the ; lines below and adjust the settings to your hearts content. ;[homes] ;valid users = %S ;create mode = 0600 ;directory mode = 0755 ;browseable = no ;read only = no ;veto files = /*.{*}/.*/mail/bin/ ; NOTE: Only needed if you run samba as a primary domain controller. ; Not needed as this config doesn't cover that matter. ;[netlogon] ;path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon ;admin users = Administrator ;valid users = %U ;read only = no ; NOTE: Again - only needed if you're running a primary domain controller. ;[Profiles] ;path = /var/lib/samba/profiles ;valid users = %U ;create mode = 0600 ;directory mode = 0700 ;writeable = yes ;browseable = no ; NOTE: Inside this place you may build a printer driver repository for ; Windows - I'll cover this topic in another HOWTO. [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes guest ok = yes read only = yes write list = root create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 [printers] path = /tmp printable = yes guest ok = yes browseable = no ; Uncomment if you need to share your CD-/DVD-ROM Drive ;[DVD-ROM Drive] ;path = /media/cdrom ;browseable = yes ;read only = yes ;guest ok = yes [MyFiles] path = / read only = no guest ok = no create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 force user = danny force group = danny available = no browsable = yes public = no writable = no
i fixed the problem by changing 'available' from no to yes under the [MYFILES] section. Any idea what happened here? I have absolutely no recollection of changing the 'available' parameter.
